VICTORIA — Foster families in British Columbia will get a monthly pay raise of hundreds of dollars starting April 1.
Mitzi Dean, the child and family development minister, said Wednesday that families fostering kids 11 and under will see their payments increase by $450 a month to $1,465 per child, while caregivers for those 12 to 19 will see a $531 monthly increase to $1,655 per child.
The increased funding, Dean said, will fill a"critical need" for families hit hard by inflation who need to provide children with food, clothing and other essentials as living costs rise. Dean said funding is also increasing for other caregivers, including those with high- and special-needs children, along with so-called kinship families who take children under their care from family members.
"As a young child, my mother struggled with a substance use disorder and we lived in deep poverty, and I experienced horrific neglect and violence and abuse," Robertson said."I left home when I was 13 and were it not for several families providing kinship care in my early teenage years, I would not be here today.
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